Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00138)

--- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> One of the problems with someone who believes in an unerring 
dogma is
> that, if one piece of it is proven false to him or her, then the 
entire
> dogma falls apart, leaving a spiritual vacuum in its place. That's 
the
> principle Uri Geller used to fool so many scientists...

That is an interesting interpretation. What I got out of it was that 
he was right to see that Jews are wrong to hate Arabs, but that he 
missed the point that Muslims are wrong to hate Jews. (Ditto with 
Germans.) That is most surprising given that Yousef was himself a 
Jew not so long ago. One would think he would be in a unique 
position to see through the prevailing delusion. It is the hate that 
is the problem, and not the "ethnic" bit, nor the system of beliefs 
(or superstitions, depending on your viewpoint) to which one 
subscribes. These are all people we are talking about here. The 
Arabs have the right to live in their own land without being starved 
or dehydrated out or being shot for walking outside their own homes, 
and the Jews, although it is regrettable that they emigrated to an 
inhabited area, nonetheless deserve to walk the streets without being 
the target of suicide bombers. Since nobody seems to see that, it 
must be an astonighingly subtle point. Either that or I am losing my 
mind prematurely.